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B. Semina haud rostrata. 
7. Folia acicularia vel subacicularia, conferta, rigida ; capsula sessilis. 
P. CNEORUM, St-Hil. 
Radix perpendicularis lignosa ; caules corymbose fasciculati breves, rigidi, sim- 
plices vel ramosi; folia numerosissima patula, acicularia, subadscendentia ; racemi 
capitati breves, sessiles, pauciflori; flores pedicellati ; sepala conspicue ciliata, acuta; 
alæ ellipticæ, acutæ, florem superantes; petala superiora ovato-lanceolata sub- 
obtusa; carinæ crista biloba, lobis 3 dentatis; antheræ subsessiles; stigma superius 
appendiculo apice cristato, refracto munitum ; semina subcurvata, sericea, appen- 
diculis semen subæquantibus vel id superantibus. 
St-Hil. FI. Bras. merid. II, 38 ; A.-W. Bennet. in Mart. F1. Brasil. Polyg. I. c. 23. 
Tab. nostra XXIV, fig. 28-29. 
Radix perpendicularis lignosa, simplex vel pauciramosa, grisea, versus caudicem 
sæpe 2-4 mm. crassa. Caules numerosi e trunco brevi (cca. 1 em. longo) orti, 
lignosi, corymbosi, simplices vel superne iterum corymbose ramosi, vel sabumbel- 
lati, foliis dilapsis tuberculati, rugosi, glaberrimi, 8-15 cm. longi, vel minores, 
sæpe purpurascentes. Folia glabra, acicularia, subtus revoluta, 3-5 mm. longa, 
0,3-0,8 mm. lata, acuta, conferta, curvato-patentia. Racemi inter folia suprema 
sessiles, 5-7 mm. longi, 7-10 mm. lati. Bracteæ subæquales, ovatæ, triangulares, 
margine ciliatæ, pedicelli, breviores, deciduæ. Pedicelli in flore evoluto, 1-1,5 mm. 
longi, striati, versus apicem parum incrassati. Flores 3-4 mm. longi, in sicco lutei. 
Sepala exteriora longitudine subæqualia, duo antica ovato-lanceolata, acuta, superius 
late ovatum, margine ciliata. Alæ quam flos longiores, ellipticæ, subapiculatæ vel 
acutæ, unguiculatæ, nervis 3 subsimplicibus vel exterioribus pauciramosis, glabræ. 
Petala superiora ovato-lanceolata, basi breviter cuneata, subobtusa vel retusa, quam 
carina cristata paulo breviores per ‘/, tantum cum tubo staminali connata, glabra. 
